If Belfort doesn’t get hurt in preparation for the bout, Lombard said he’ll wait to meet the winner.

It remains to be seen whether Bisping will oblige a meeting with the former champ. The Brit has been vocal in his desire to get a title shot and expected his most recent win, a decision over Brian Stann, to earn him one.

Lombard, who heckled Bisping in a recent interview, will lobby nonetheless for the fight. He got started on Saturday.

“I would love to fight Michael Bisping – he’s said a lot of things about me lately and I want to settle it in the Octagon,” Lombard said after knocking Palhares into orbit at the Gold Coast Convention Centre in Gold Coast, Australia.

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